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Enterprise Rent-A-Car UK, Ltd.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Joan Canton (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton) and Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin and MUNIC

18 Jan 2023 · Access to in-vehicle data

Meeting with Filip Alexandru Negreanu Arboreanu (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean) and Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin

16 Jan 2023 · Vehicle data access

Meeting with Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski), Roberto Berutti (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski) and

16 Jan 2023 · Upcoming initiative on in-vehicle data

Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

25 Jan 2022 · Shared mobility

Meeting with Daniel Mes (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

27 Apr 2021 · Zero emission road transport

Meeting with Ivo Schmidt (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

10 Apr 2019 · Low emission mobility

Meeting with Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

10 Apr 2019 · connected & autonomous driving, access to in-vehicle data

Response to Evaluation of the 2011 White Paper on Transport

1 Mar 2019

Enterprise Holdings (Enterprise) welcomes the European Commission’s ambition in looking to define the future of EU transport policy as a follow-up to its 2011 White Paper. Like the Commission, Enterprise is focused on the future of consumer and business mobility services and fully agrees with the Commission’s previous assessment that when considering the future of European transport, “curbing mobility is not an option”. As the owner of the largest passenger vehicle fleet in the world, we believe we are well situated to anticipate future consumer demand, and to anticipate the opportunities and challenges that policymakers face in facilitating the arrival of transformative technology in the transport sector. As the transport and mobility sector continues to develop, Enterprise will remain focused on its core business: responding to the short and medium-term transportation requirements of consumers for personal and business needs. What will change is the way our services can be delivered to consumers, most notably through multi-modal mobility platforms. These service models will enable companies, like Enterprise, to seamlessly integrate multiple transportation modes into a single trip for a consumer. This will mean digital applications that can offer a single trip solution using multiple mobility modes, from multiple providers, to provide individuals with options that provide the best value. As such, Enterprise believes that this approach fully aligns with the Commission’s ambitions regarding more multimodal transport solutions and greater choice for consumers. As we as an industry look to the future transport needs of consumers, so must legislators. As such, we believe that some of the necessary considerations for EU policymakers to ensure a robust, competitive future market include: -A regulatory framework for mobility services that ensures consumers receive the same protections, and experience the same tax obligations, when using like-for-like services. Many consumer protection and taxation regulatory constructs need to be modernised to appropriately address new digital service delivery models, from both incumbent service providers who are innovating, and from new entrants who operate in the collaborative economy. -Continued attention to data issues, including privacy and access, to ensure that consumers’ rights are protected and competition is encouraged. This will particularly be the case when considering the issue of access to in-vehicle data. Automated/Autonomous vehicles will bring additional considerations including: -A liability and negligence framework which ensures that all of the potentially negligent parties in future autonomous vehicle accidents can be held accountable. Factors to be considered for this system include liability for negligent design of automated driving systems; negligent maintenance of those systems; and potential negligent operation of the systems. -A level of safety standardisation that ensures vehicle owners are able to properly maintain the complex systems of sensors within their vehicles which enable their operations. New levels of safety standards related to ensuring proper calibration of sensors and safety systems need to be clearly established to ensure that unintentional improper maintenance of these vehicles does not become a public safety concern. -Infrastructure to support any future mandates on vehicles. Public policy goals for electrification, or other alternative fuel systems, will only provide effective mobility options for consumers if a holistic approach to mobility is adopted, ensuring that the infrastructure needed to support any such mandates arrives in the market before the mandate itself. Whilst Enterprise recognises the importance of the European Commission advocating for a more efficient and forward-looking approach to European transport policy, it will also be vital to do so whilst avoiding a fragmentation of the EU Single Market regarding access to urban areas.
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Response to Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM)

14 Nov 2018

Enterprise welcomes the Commission’s work towards a positive ecosystem for Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility in the EU. We particularly agree with the analysis and concerns set out in the Communication on ‘The Road to Automated Mobility: An EU Strategy for Mobility of the Future’ on access to in-vehicle data. As the Commission notes, this data has “enormous potential” to unlock many innovative business models, products, and services across multiple levels of the industry for the benefit of consumers. However, the data has more than future potential importance, it has current day relevance as well. As such, we believe that now is a crucial time to establish key principles, as a first step towards the presentation of a legislative proposal, to ensure continued, effective competition in the mobility market. As the owner of a fleet of more than 2 million vehicles, committed to providing innovative services to our customers, we have a strong interest in direct, reasonable and non-discriminatory access to the data generated through the operation of our vehicles. Like other large fleet operators, we recognise the value we bring to customers when we can access data, while ensuring privacy for our users, in ways that make our mobility services innovative, efficient and effective. In-vehicle data is the new frontier for the development of new vehicle types, but also new mobility services. Connected cars offer significant downstream business development potential for all stakeholders in the automotive sector across a wide variety of applications. We welcome the positive language in the roadmap, including the ambition to “make Europe a world leader for automated and connected mobility”. To achieve this, we agree that a coordinated approach amongst Member States will be crucial and the most effective way to ensure this would be through legislative initiatives that enable all players involved to access the data generated by vehicles. For fleet owners (including car rental companies), real-time access to in-vehicle data is key to the ability to provide safe and affordable transportation options to customers; enabling us to operate, maintain and repair increasingly connected (and ultimately autonomous) fleets. As identified in the roadmap, “centralisation of in-vehicle data as currently implemented by some market players, might in itself not be sufficient to ensure fair and undistorted competition between service providers”. We believe that the only means to ensure open competition in the future mobility market is a governance model anchored by a standards-based, in-vehicle, secure data interface underpinned by clearly defined data use cases. This would allow multiple solutions, including the OEMs’ own data platforms, to co-exist, driving healthy competition in the market and ensuring that any technical solutions adopted in the future would enable open competition amongst all participants in the mobility services ‘eco-system’ without compromising the highest levels of data protection, privacy and cybersecurity. This model has taken form as the Secure Vehicle Interface (SVI). Developed by experts in cybersecurity, automotive engineering and data communications among others, the SVI concept is an open, secure and standardised interface design that offers equitable access to in-vehicle networks for all authorised stakeholders (e.g. vehicle owners, C-ITS stations, maintenance and repair facilities, as well as OEMs). We will provide greater detail on SVI in our response to the Commission’s ongoing public consultation on this topic. Whilst we recognise and welcome the work undertaken by the Commission so far on this important topic, a clear legislative framework will be crucial to ensure fair, real-time, unrestricted and technology-neutral access to in-vehicle data and resources, in order to protect consumer rights, promote innovation and ensure non-discriminatory competition for all third-parties in this market.
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Meeting with Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

9 Jul 2018 · connected and autonomous driving and teh access to in-vehicle data

Meeting with Silke Obst (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc)

6 Dec 2017 · Meeting with MM. Nigel Goodall

Meeting with Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

4 Dec 2017 · connected mobility package, connected & autonomous driving

Meeting with Silvio Mascagna (Cabinet of Commissioner Julian King)

22 Nov 2017 · Protection of public spaces

Meeting with Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

10 Jul 2017 · EU initiatives & dev in digital sector which have impact on car rental services, connected & autonomous driving

Meeting with Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

28 Feb 2017 · Digital and collaborative business models

Meeting with Filomena Chirico (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

28 Feb 2017 · Consumer protection, collaborative models and data economy in the car rental sector

Meeting with Maria Elena Scoppio (Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici) and Portland PR Europe Limited and

28 Sept 2016 · Meeting about the new UCC and the movement of vehicles between Switzerland and EU territory

Meeting with Kilian Gross (Digital Economy)

26 Sept 2016 · e-commerce, sharing economy

Meeting with Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

14 Jul 2016 · Collaborative Economy

Meeting with Eduard Hulicius (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)

14 Jun 2016 · Rights of consumers

Meeting with Vivian Loonela (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

13 Jun 2016 · Enterprises's business model and strategic operation in Europe - digital and collaborative business models

Meeting with Denzil Davidson (Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill)

4 Apr 2016 · Rental car insurance